The mind is the seat of human consciousness, the thinking-feeling 'I' that seems to be an agentic casual force that is somehow related but also seemingly separable from the body(Unified Theory of the Mind).
Consciousness is only a small portion of mental processes. Thus, consciousness and mind are not synonymous.
Relationship Between Mind and Consciousness
The mind is actually different from the brain-body. This is clearly explained by the Computational Theory of the Mind, which states that the nervous system is an information processing system. It works by translating changes in the body and the environment into a language of neutral impulses that represent the animals environment relationship.
The mind can be conceived as the flow of information through the nervous system and its flow of information can be conceptually separated from the biophysical matter that makes up the nervous system. So invariably I am saying that, the mind is different $ separate from the brain-body.
For instance, think of a book. The book's mass, its temperature, and other physical dimensions can now be considered as roughly akin to the brain. Then think about the information content(i.e the story the book tells or claims it makes). In the computational theory, that is akin to the mind. The mind then is the information instantiated in and processed by the nervous system.
Therefore the mind is a house of information. So what determines how broad your mind is, is the amount of information it processes.
Consciousness can be differentiated from the mind, in that it is the mysterious, subjective, first-person world as it seems to you, one that no one else can hack into. It can, however, be dissociated from the mind, which also, in turn, would be related closely to the concepts of personality and self a consciousness. What is surprising is that normally the hall-mark of the human condition is to use the mind to a greater or lesser extent throughout the day to interpret the world around us: we have to go to very extreme examples to 'lose our mind' or 'blow our minds', but it is possible. If we view mind and consciousness as completely distinct but completely rooted in the physical brain, it may be that we have new insights and can think of new ways not just of treating mental disorders but also of reaching towards the most elusive questions concerning human happiness.
Consciousness is only a small portion of mental processes. Thus, consciousness and mind are not synonymous.
Relationship Between Mind and Consciousness
The mind is actually different from the brain-body. This is clearly explained by the Computational Theory of the Mind, which states that the nervous system is an information processing system. It works by translating changes in the body and the environment into a language of neutral impulses that represent the animals environment relationship.
The mind can be conceived as the flow of information through the nervous system and its flow of information can be conceptually separated from the biophysical matter that makes up the nervous system. So invariably I am saying that, the mind is different $ separate from the brain-body.
For instance, think of a book. The book's mass, its temperature, and other physical dimensions can now be considered as roughly akin to the brain. Then think about the information content(i.e the story the book tells or claims it makes). In the computational theory, that is akin to the mind. The mind then is the information instantiated in and processed by the nervous system.
Therefore the mind is a house of information. So what determines how broad your mind is, is the amount of information it processes.
Consciousness can be differentiated from the mind, in that it is the mysterious, subjective, first-person world as it seems to you, one that no one else can hack into. It can, however, be dissociated from the mind, which also, in turn, would be related closely to the concepts of personality and self a consciousness. What is surprising is that normally the hall-mark of the human condition is to use the mind to a greater or lesser extent throughout the day to interpret the world around us: we have to go to very extreme examples to 'lose our mind' or 'blow our minds', but it is possible. If we view mind and consciousness as completely distinct but completely rooted in the physical brain, it may be that we have new insights and can think of new ways not just of treating mental disorders but also of reaching towards the most elusive questions concerning human happiness.